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A05500 Summary:

A05500 Actions:

A05500 Committee Votes:

Committee:HIGHER EDUCATION   Chair:Glick      
DATE:02/27/2019AYE/NAY:25/0  Action: Favorable         
Glick
Aye
Smith
Aye
Gottfried
Aye
Fitzpatrick
Aye
Englebright
Aye
Garbarino
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Ashby
Aye
Lifton
Aye
Reilly
Aye
Cusick
Aye
Salka
Aye
Lupardo
Aye
Walczyk
Aye
Stirpe
Aye
Fahy
Aye
Pichardo
Aye
Simon
Aye
McDonald
Aye
Bichotte
Excused
Hyndman
Aye
Epstein
Aye
Griffin
Aye
Romeo
Aye
McMahon
Aye
Buttenschon
Aye

A05500 Floor Votes:

A05500 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5500
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 12, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  eligibility  for
          tuition  assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must
          transfer to another institution as a result  of  a  permanent  college
          closure

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  667  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  400  of  the  laws  of 2018, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible  for  more  than  four
     5  academic  years of study, or five academic years if the program of study
     6  normally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial
     7  study, approved by the commissioner in an institution of  higher  educa-
     8  tion and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall,
     9  for  purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a program of
    10  study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate  student  enrolled
    11  in  an  eligible  two year program of study approved by the commissioner
    12  shall be eligible for no more than three academic  years  of  study.  An
    13  undergraduate  student  enrolled in an approved two or four-year program
    14  of study approved by the  commissioner  who  must  transfer  to  another
    15  institution  as  a result of permanent college closure shall be eligible
    16  for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, [as  determined
    17  by  the  commissioner,  in  order to complete his or her program] to the
    18  extent credits necessary to complete his or her program  of  study  were
    19  deemed  non-transferable  from the closed institution or were deemed not
    20  applicable to such student's program of study by  the  new  institution.
    21  Any  semester,  quarter,  or  term  of attendance during which a student
    22  receives any award under this article, after the effective date  of  the
    23  former  scholar  incentive  program  and prior to academic year nineteen
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09761-01-9
        A. 5500                             2
 
     1  hundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall  be  counted  toward
     2  the  maximum  term  of  eligibility  for  tuition  assistance under this
     3  section, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance  during
     4  which  a  student  received  an  award  pursuant  to section six hundred
     5  sixty-six of this subpart shall be counted as one-half  of  a  semester,
     6  quarter  or  term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term of eligi-
     7  bility under this section. Any semester, quarter or term  of  attendance
     8  during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
     9  sixty-seven-a  of  this  subpart shall not be counted toward the maximum
    10  term of eligibility under this section.
    11    § 2. The higher education services corporation and the  department  of
    12  education  are  authorized  to promulgate rules and regulations, and may
    13  promulgate emergency regulations, necessary for  the  implementation  of
    14  the provisions of this act.
    15    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    16  have been in full force and effect on the same date as  chapter  400  of
    17  the laws of 2018 took effect.